If you’re a science major or just looking for some interesting reading for Spring Break, take a look at Dr. Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. In this first-ever book to make a comprehensive case for intelligent design based on DNA, Dr. Meyer investigates current evolutionary theories and the evidence that ultimately led him to affirm intelligent design. Chuck Colson from BreakPoint ministries says that what lies at the heart of Dr. Meyer’s book is the concept of information. Scientists have learned that molecular DNA is a vast storehouse of information that when “precisely arranged” (key words) provides the instructions for forming the structures that living cells need to survive. Could such an advanced code or “software for life” have happened by chance?
As Dr. Meyer shows, given the vast complexity of information required to create the 250 proteins necessary to sustain the simplest living cell, the probability that life originated in the primordial soup by chance is beyond astronomically slim--only 1 in 10 to the 41 thousandth power! Listen to his conclusion: “Our uniform experience affirms that specified information--whether inscribed in hieroglyphics, written in a book, encoded in a radio signal, or produced in a simulation experiment--always arises from an intelligent source, from a mind and not a strictly material process…Indeed, it follows that the best, most causally adequate explanation for the origin of the specified, digitally encoded information in DNA is that it too had an intelligent source.”
Buff up on your understanding of intelligent design to make sure you know how to argue for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15). The argument for intelligent design is not based on ignorance or ”giving up on science” but instead upon our growing scientific knowledge.
You can read an excerpt from Signature in the Cell here: http://www.breakpoint.org/features-columns/articles/12705-dna-darwin-and-the-appearance-of-design
Colson, Chuck. “Signature in the Cell: Information and Intelligence.” BreakPoint. Sept. 24, 2009. http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/12708-signature-in-the-cell